BLUE plaques are to be unveiled in Middlesbrough and Port Clarence as a legacy of the Heritage Lottery Fund-supported Tees Transporter Bridge Visitor Experience Project.

The plaques have been manufactured to mark key heritage locations along a route from the Dorman Museum to Port Clarence on the north side of the Transporter Bridge.

The site of Bolckow Vaughan’s Ironworks on the banks of the Tees, Lady Bell’s Winter Garden, Teesside University and Middlesbrough Dock Clock Tower are among the locations featured.

The new plaques have been designed by Baldwin Solid Surfaces and cast at the town’s historic William Lane Foundry. They will replace a number of existing badly-worn plaques as well as marking other key historic and cultural locations.

A new Heritage App, free to download, will follow in the near future which will guide visitors around the area using augmented technology and interactive locations.

Tosh Warwick, Middlesbrough Heritage Development Officer said: “The blue plaques allow visitors to the Bridge and wider area to discover some of the key events, landmarks and people that have played, and continue to play, an important part in the heritage of the area.”

Cllr Lewis Young, Middlesbrough Council’s Executive Member for Culture, Leisure and Sport, said: “For a relatively young town, Middlesbrough is rich in heritage and history, and it’s only right that we celebrate some of the key sites and events of our past.”

The first plaques are set to be installed before the end of August with the Tees Transporter Bridge Heritage App launch to follow soon after.